The Doctor and his traveling companions, Jamie and Zoe, find
themselves landing on The Wheel, a ring of ice and metal
that circles one of Saturn's moons. It's home to a mining
colony that supplies Earth. Besieged by problems, and
inhabited with strange creatures that the children fear, The
Wheel wants someone to blame and who else but the visiting
Doctor. Soon it is revealed that there is an ancient mystery
at hand that can destroy The Wheel and potentially kill them
all. It's up to the Doctor to save them all.
Award winning author Stephen Baxter has given us a fresh
look at doctor number two from the original Doctor Who
television series. Considering there's not much literature
made from this particular doctor, this book is fun and
fascinating from this viewpoint alone. Let me jump in here
and say that I recommend going on YouTube and watching a few
minutes of actor Patrick Troughton who plays the second
doctor, and it will be easier to picture the character, and
also to watch mannerisms, hear accents, etc. His traveling
companions, Jamie and Zoe, are also on board in this tale,
complete with Jamie's Scottish accent. If you're a new fan
to the Doctor Who series, or you've been a fan for many
years, you will be entertained with this tale of a mining
colony on the rings of Saturn, government bureaucracy, and
an evil industrial plot. Of course there are little blue men
and an ancient evil. One of my favorite aspects of this
novel was the amazing care Baxter took to research the
subject and translate the setting brilliantly onto page. The
pictures I formed from his descriptions alone made me yearn
to visit the distant planet to see these things for myself.
Pick up DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL OF ICE to compliment your
Doctor Who collection,
tickle your sci-fi lovin' funny bone, or start a new
obsession today.
Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police
box that’s not a police box. The TARDIS has carried the
Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, to all sorts of
places, but now, when they don’t want to go anywhere, the
TARDIS makes a decision for them. Like it or not, they’re
coming in for a landing, who knows where or when…
The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of
Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry
Earth. It’s a bad place to live—and a worse place to grow
up.
The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it’s only a
run of bad luck, but the equipment failures and thefts of
resources have been increasing. And there are stories among
the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the
Wheel. Some of the younger workers are even refusing to go
down into the warren-like mines any more.
And then one of them, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an
enigmatic blue box from destruction.
Once on the Wheel, the Doctor and his companions face a
critical situation when they become suspected by some as the
source of the ongoing sabotage.
They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes all
the way back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery
that could destroy the Wheel—and kill them all...
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